The consist of Boston-Washington train 175, the Patriot, is still all New Haven, including the two FL9s up front, but a brand new sign on Kingston tower (formerly known as SS 133) indicates that ... (more)

A former New Haven FL9 that has been renumbered but not yet repainted by Penn Central heads up a short New Haven-Springfield train passing the south end of Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, headed no... (more)

From 1898 until the terminal's major reconstruction in the mid-1980s, banks of lower quadrant semaphores protected the approaches to Boston's South Station. Penn Central E8 4268 led a Providence-b... (more)

The evening rush hour is underway as an ex-PRR E8 accelerates a Providence-bound Penn Central commuter train out of South Station past Boston Terminal Tower 1. This area is completely changed toda... (more)

An ex-New Haven Alco Century 425 fronting a pair of U25Bs smokes things up a bit on a westbound freight at Milford, CT. This train, bound for the EL/L&HR gateway at Maybrook, NY, originated at Ced... (more)

There's no place like home! Penn Central N9E transfer caboose (a.k.a. cabin car). Wellsboro Junction, PA (former New York Central branch).

A Penn Central westbound freight rolls slowly to a meet with the sad little 3-car passenger train from Buffalo, NY.

With a healthy burp of Alco smoke, an A-B-B-A set of former New Haven FAs and FBs accelerates past South Bay Tower in South Boston as they get underway with Penn Central train BL-1 for Lowell, MA,... (more)

Heading literally and figuratively into the sunset, an A-B-B-A set of Alco cabs departs Penn Central's South Boston freight terminal for Lowell, MA, with train BL-1. The locomotives and trackage a... (more)

Given today's crowds on Metro North, it is noteworthy that in the late 1960s, commuter business on Penn Central's Hudson Line was light enough that two-car MU trains were sufficient for off-peak s... (more)

A typical diverse assortment of Penn Central passenger power awaits assignment at New Haven Motor Storage back in 1971 We see GG1 4872 in PRR paint, a former New Haven EP-5 electric (now PC class ... (more)

A former NYC RS-3 is in charge of Penn Central's Pittsfield-Adams (MA) local freight as it crosses the Cheshire Reservoir causeway at Cheshire, MA, northbound on a spring morning. This part of the... (more)

Empire Service trains under Penn Central were rather modest affairs. Albany-New York train 80 consisted of an E8 and just two cars as it emerged from the short single track tunnel at Garrison, NY,... (more)

Penn Central was a year old in June 1969 but this scene at Poughkeepsie carried on the New York Central heritage. E8s 4066-4093 have arrived from Croton-Harmon on a commuter train out of Grand Cen... (more)

A South Amboy power move has just emerged out of the subway at Union Tower as the crew heads for Meadows where the units will be serviced prior to returning to South Amboy. Included in the consis... (more)